Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another less subtle method of detecting the whereabouts of incipient hang-overs is lounging in front of liquor stores which sell ice and following those customers who emerge straining under large, brown bags...
...James) Thomas Heflin, 82, jovial Alabama demagogue, Democratic Representative (1904-20) and Senator (until 1930); after long illness; in Lafayette, Ala. A cartoonist's Congressman (windy manner, frock coat and black bow tie), Klan-backed "Tom-Tom" stood for higher cotton prices and "white supremacy," inveighed against "the liquor interests," "the wolves of Wall Street," New York's "Roman-Tammany system," and Catholicism,* which he represented as out to i) get his scalp, 2) plunge the U.S. into war with Mexico. In 1928, rather than support Catholic Al Smith for the presidency, Heflin bolted the Democratic Party, stumped...
...mother: she is a religious militant who keeps badgering him to come to Sunrise Service when he would much rather hunt and talk with his dad. Foster watches the conflict between his parents work itself out, sees his father crumple in the prime of life, paralyzed by moonshine liquor that the zealous church-folk have spitefully poisoned...
Oregon state police and liquor agents swooped down on 100 taverns and roadhouses in Clackamas County one night last week, confiscated 115 gambling devices and arrested 87 men & women. "I can't understand this!" cried a waitress at one of the joints. "We've always been tipped off before...
...wholesale cost, increases it by a fixed percentage taken from an official OPS markup list. The list covers 60% of the products in the nation's $32 billion annual food bill, including butter, baby foods, breakfast cereal, cocoa, coffee etc. Exempt: milk, cream, fresh meat, bread, liquor and 58 other commodities, all of which are still regulated by the Jan. 26 order, as well as fresh fruit & vegetables and sugar, which are not controlled...